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Originally Posted by MedPharm View Post
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could you give an explanation or the QID? my pharmacology book says that there are no attenuated or killed vaccines for syn vir....
Kaplan's explanation to this question was something along the lines of: syncitial viruses are viruses that cause cell to cell fusion, therefore they are rarely extracellular, so therefore we need something that will go into the cells and kill the virus.
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